Michaela Haas: The F Word in Buddhism: ‘Daughters of the Buddha’ Discuss How Buddhist Women Can Achieve Equality
It’s Not Just Domestic Violence: The Beginner’s Guide to 16 Types of Violence Against Women « The Pixel Project
Tibetans Turn to Alternative Protest as Self-Immolations Prove Futile | TIME.com
NWLC Joins Title IX Lawsuit Regarding Sexual Assault and Harassment | National Women’s Law Center
Jane reported her assault to the police anyway, and they opened an investigation. Title IX, the federal law that prohibits sex-based harassment, including sexual assault, in federally-funded education programs, requires schools to investigate and respond to allegations of sexual assault.
Jane’s school failed her. It didn’t take reasonable steps to investigate and respond to Jane’s allegations. For example, the principal interviewed the assailant, but neglected to take notes, and even allowed Jane’s assailant to remain in the same class as her for weeks after the assault. The school’s lack of response led other students to assume that Jane was lying about what happened, and they started to harass her.
Jane reported this harassment to her school, but it didn’t take any action to protect her even AFTER prosecutors brought criminal charges against the assailant. All the school did was bench him from a few basketball games. As a result, Jane’s grades suffered, she quit the soccer team and cheerleading squad, became isolated from her classmates, and ended up transferring to a new school.
We’re filing this complaint to help achieve justice for Jane, and to send a strong message to schools that they need to take their Title IX responsibilities seriously.
NWLC Joins Title IX Lawsuit Regarding Sexual Assault and Harassment | National Women’s Law Center
Jane reported her assault to the police anyway, and they opened an investigation. Title IX, the federal law that prohibits sex-based harassment, including sexual assault, in federally-funded education programs, requires schools to investigate and respond to allegations of sexual assault.
Jane’s school failed her. It didn’t take reasonable steps to investigate and respond to Jane’s allegations. For example, the principal interviewed the assailant, but neglected to take notes, and even allowed Jane’s assailant to remain in the same class as her for weeks after the assault. The school’s lack of response led other students to assume that Jane was lying about what happened, and they started to harass her.
Jane reported this harassment to her school, but it didn’t take any action to protect her even AFTER prosecutors brought criminal charges against the assailant. All the school did was bench him from a few basketball games. As a result, Jane’s grades suffered, she quit the soccer team and cheerleading squad, became isolated from her classmates, and ended up transferring to a new school.
We’re filing this complaint to help achieve justice for Jane, and to send a strong message to schools that they need to take their Title IX responsibilities seriously.
How women are remaking Buddhism - The Washington Post
This means that Buddhism is not only good for women, but good for the world, and much of this has arisen as a result of women being empowered in various Buddhist schools in our time. For this, we must thank not only women but men as well, as the transmission process for the most part, has come from them. In this regard, I look at my own lineage chart, and there are 81 men’s names, names of ancestors, from the Buddha on, and my own living teacher, until the 82nd name, which is my own, the first woman’s name on the lineage chart, except for Prajnaparamita, the so-called Mother of all Buddhas, whose large circle at the top of the chart is the womb from which all Buddhas flow. And still, the historical and social significance that this lineage chart reveals can’t go unnoticed.
Manti Te’o, Lance Armstrong, and the Art of the Athlete’s Meltdown | Vanity Fair
Paterno outlived his usefulness, too old and past-it to restore Penn State to its former on-field glory, but athletes who can still lead their teams to the promised land are given a lot more leeway by fans and microphones, even after they’ve been accused of rape (Los Angeles Lakers shooting guard Kobe Bryant) or implicated in murder (Baltimore Ravens linebacker Ray Lewis, who now has a second Super Bowl ring to flash in retirement). If Tiger Woods regains his indomitable form, forgiveness will fully flow, and why not? He’s paid the price in shame and humiliation, and, in the absence of a hereafter, public humiliation is hell’s nearest motel. The orchestra is just tuning up for the humiliation that Alex Rodriguez will be hearing this spring. A-Rod may be a rich phony, so why do I feel a little sorry for the guy?
Manti Te’o, Lance Armstrong, and the Art of the Athlete’s Meltdown | Vanity Fair
Paterno outlived his usefulness, too old and past-it to restore Penn State to its former on-field glory, but athletes who can still lead their teams to the promised land are given a lot more leeway by fans and microphones, even after they’ve been accused of rape (Los Angeles Lakers shooting guard Kobe Bryant) or implicated in murder (Baltimore Ravens linebacker Ray Lewis, who now has a second Super Bowl ring to flash in retirement). If Tiger Woods regains his indomitable form, forgiveness will fully flow, and why not? He’s paid the price in shame and humiliation, and, in the absence of a hereafter, public humiliation is hell’s nearest motel. The orchestra is just tuning up for the humiliation that Alex Rodriguez will be hearing this spring. A-Rod may be a rich phony, so why do I feel a little sorry for the guy?
Steubenville and Challenging Rape Culture in Sports | The Nation
This seared itself into my memory because my brain seems to regurgitate it every time men’s sports lurks in the background of a sexual assault. Earlier this year, it was seeing Notre Dame players who had been implicated in two sexual assaults, take the field without uproar in their national championship game, led by a coach who thought the accusations were cause for humor. This week the trial opens in Steubenville, Ohio, where two members of the storied high school football team are facing youth prison until the age of 21 for sexually assaulting a 16-year-old girl. The defense has described the young woman as “a drunk out-of-town football groupie.”
The fact is that rape culture—conversation, jokes and actions that normalize rape—are a part of sports. Far too many athletes feel far too empowered to see women as the spoils of jock culture. The young woman in Steubenville was carried like a piece of meat, with the brutality documented like it was spring break in Daytona Beach. It was so normalized that dozens of people saw what was happening and did nothing.
Why would the players feel so entitled to not only act this way but also document their own behavior? Why would their peers watch and do nothing? It starts with understanding Steubenville, a small city not so different from many others in the former Rust Belt. This is a damaged postindustrial town where there is little hope and excitement beyond the dynastic “Big Red” high school football program. As one local resident said to Dan Wetzel of Yahoo! Sports, “We have 16,000 people in Steubenville and a 10,000-seat stadium. That says it all.” The team’s website even says that Big Red football is “keeping Steubenville on the map.”
Because high school football is at the center of the social, psychological and even economic life of Steubenville, youth are treated like demigods, with the adults acting like sentries guarding the sacred program. Whatever the results of the trial, it speaks volumes that the young woman is in lockdown in her own home under armed guards because of death threats.
Stop Telling Women How to Not Get Raped - News & Views - EBONY
“There are a number of men who do not understand what constitutes rape, which is a consequence of the “stranger in the alley” falsehood presented in movies and popular culture.
You don’t need a mask and a gun to sexually violate a woman. The truth is that rape can happen with a woman you are dating whom you’ve had sex with previously, in a monogamous relationship, and even in marriage.
If one party withdraws consent at any time then it’s rape. Consent can be withdrawn by the words “no “or “stop” and in many states, a woman doesn’t have to say no at all. Consumption of alcohol can prevent a woman from being able to legally offer consent.
Therefore, it is important for men and women alike to be very clear about their intentions and prioritize consent over the excitement of getting some.”
Stop Telling Women How to Not Get Raped - News & Views - EBONY
How about we teach young men when a woman says stop, they stop? How about we teach young men that when a woman has too much to drink that they should not have sex with her, if for no other reason but to protect themselves from being accused of a crime? How about we teach young men that when they see their friends doing something inappropriate to intervene or to stop being friends? The culture that allows men to violate women will continue to flourish so long as there is no great social consequence for men who do so. And while many men punished for sexual assaults each year, countless others are able to commit rape and other crimes against women because we so often blame the victim instead of the guilty party.
Holding women and girls accountable for preventing sexual assault hasn’t worked and so long as men commit the majority of rapes, men need to be at the heart of our tactics for preventing them. Let’s stop teaching ‘how to avoid being a victim’ and instead, attack the culture that creates predators in the first place.
Theatrical Slut Shaming: Daily Caller Attacks Ashley Judd For Movie Nude Scenes | ThinkProgress
We are used to knowing just about everything there is to know about serious political candidates. But will Judd be the first potential senator who has — literally — nothing left to show us? The actress has bared her breasts in several films and has had some raunchy sex scenes in others. According to MrSkin.com, which bills itself as “the largest free nude celebrity movie archive,” Judd has flashed just about everything on-screen. It seems like she was particularly liberal with nudity early on in her career…Judd did a lesbian sex scene in 2002′s Oscar-nominated “Frida” and has nine other films categorized as “sexy” by Mr. Skin, meaning that there is at least one racy scene in those films
